SunShot - PVBid Create Bid Wireframe Challenge

Welcome to SunShot - PVBid Create Bid Wireframe Challenge! In this challenge we are looking to enhance and improve the user experience for a current app that help users create bids and review bids.

You are provided with a screenshots on how the client imagines the app workflow will look like but we are looking for your help to improve it.

Round 1

Submit your wireframe for a Checkpoint feedback:
0. Navigation.
1. Landing Page.
2. Sign Up Page.
3. Create a Bid Page.
4. Create a Line Item Template Page.
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client.

Round 2

Final wireframe plus any Checkpoint feedback:
0. Navigation.
1. Landing Page.
2. Sign Up Page.
3. Create a Bid Page.
4. Create a Line Item Template Page.
5. Generate a Contract Page.
6. View my Bids Page.
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client.

Challenge Details:
The goal of this challenge is to improve the user experience of the current website.

We are looking for wireframe (Axure) solutions based on requirements below. We’re also looking to the community to come up with interesting ideas for the workflow - we’re absolutely open to creative solutions!

At the end of this wireframe challenge, we are looking to have a complete solution for the user experience and flow of the application.

Wireframe Expectations:
- Produce HTML click through wireframes that can be used to demonstrate all mentioned functionalities as required in each round.
- The website must be very easy to use and intuitive. Keep that in mind when designing your solution.
- You MUST cover all screens mentioned in required new sections below, if any requirement is missing in final submission the client will not take a look at it, so make a checklist for the required screens to make sure you designed all of them.
- Please show us your proposal as a movie or series of wireframes that communicate the user’s intended interaction with your proposed solution.
- You MUST use wireframes note pane in every single page you design to explain what items are addressed in that page from the documentation, what things you added/changed/removed, use it to make your idea clearer and help the client to give you constructive feedback.

Notes:
- Your solution needs to be a Responsive Design Solution.
- Your wireframe submission need able to drill down for all page flow.
- Show your wireframe solution for Desktop view. Use this screen size (1024px width and height as required)
- Feel free to suggest any tools/function that can bring good User Experience for this Application.
- Side-swipe functionality is encouraged for smaller screens.

Supporting Documents:
- Current App Screenshots (Screenshots.zip), please don’t copy the screenshots as we are looking for major redesign and improvement to what we currently have, you can only copy the content of the screens as they are what we are going to use at the end.

Wireframe Requirements:
0. Navigation:
We need the following in app navigation:
- Bids:
-- My Open Bids
-- Create New Bid
-- All Bids
- Reminders:
-- Calendar
-- To-Do list
- Trends & Analytics
- Administration
-- System Configuration
-- Template Management
-- Price Tracking
-- Module Management
- Focus on the priority items and how things should be sized.

1. Landing Page:
Please refer to Landing-Page.jpg
- It should very clearly show what user can do with this application and what the application is all about:
-- What we do.
-- Customization.
-- Clarity.
- The user should be able to sign up or log in from this page, user will be able to log in also using his google plus account or his linked in account.

2. Sign Up Page:
Please refer to Sign-Up.jpg
- Here the user the user needs to fill his information:
-- First name.
-- Last name.
-- Nickname.
-- Email.
-- Confirm Email.
-- Password.
-- Confirm Password.
- User will be able to connect using his google plus or linked in information.

3. Create a Bid Page:
Please refer to Create-a-Bid-from-a-Template.jpg
- User will need to fill following data:
-- Title.
-- From Template (user can select a ready template), show us how YOU will capture template selection!
-- Client Info.
-- Bid Summary.
-- Set Inputs.
-- System Components.
- Summary.
- Save button.

4. Create a Line Item Template Page:
Please refer to slide Create-a-Line-Item-Template.jpg
- User will need to fill following data:
-- Title.
-- Select tab to fill data (we are only concerned with Work Tab here), Please show us solutions other than tabs if you have any.
-- Scale controller.
-- Description.
-- Inputs.
-- Notes.
- Save button.
- Convert to system component button.

5. Generate a Contract Page:
Please refer to Generate-a-Contract.jpg
- User will need to fill following data:
-- For Bid.
-- Contract text editor and Save button for editor.
-- Preview; maybe show this in another view.
- Send to review button.
- Send to client button.

6. View my Bids Page:
Please refer to View-My-Bids.jpg
- User will have the ability to search for his bids.
- User will have the ability to filter his list of bids.
- A list of bids results will be shown to the user.
- More results button, maybe pagination here might work better.
- New search button.

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Target Users:
- PVBid users. Typically Sales Minded and Engineering minded people.  Construction contractors.  People with a basic understanding of web navigation.  Not people who are computer savvy.

Judging Criteria:
- Efficient - Top 3 priority - The responsive design will demonstrate an efficient use of space to maximize the functionality.  The user has access to all the features indicated in the wireframes and forums while minimizing the click-through and backtracking.  Data changes and entry should bring the user to the next input or to the next launching point.
- Intuitive - Top 3 priority - All symbols, menus, and the general organizational structure has a natural and easily recognizable path  - The structure is organized, clear and flows from step to step naturally and intuitively. The "standard" next action should be located in the same place and have the same look and feel to it but alternative actions should also be very clear - that is intuitive for the user.  The goal is for a user to be guided comfortably through the process without prior training.  This means the judging panel should have the same experience prior to reviewing the competitor’s notes.
- Appealing - Top 3 priority - The interface is appealing to view.  This means minimal clutter, comfortable paths, and clear fonts.  The eyes should be drawn to the important information and distractions should be minimized.  “Exhausting” and “tiring” are words to describe what we want to avoid.   Simple and clear symbols should be used.  The number of levels required to edit data should be minimized.
- Flexible - The responsive design should handle increased dataset sizes as well as it handles the minimum dataset.  The flexibility to handle increased data should maintain the simplicity goals outlined in criteria #3 also.
- Low bandwidth - The winning design will handle slow internet connections effectively and minimize the bandwidth required to operate the website. Please minimize non-standard graphics.

Submission & Source Files:
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.

Submission File
Generated HTML files with all the requested contest requirements stated above.

Source Files
Wireframes should be built in Axure. The resulting files should have generated HTML files. Also, all the content must be listed and the pages are linked together to show page flow.

Final Fixes
As part of the Final Fix phase, you may be asked to remove, update, or change some features of the wireframe.